Nikolai Sokolov was a teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where Dmitri Shostakovich was one of his students. After Shostakovich entered the Petrograd Conservatory in the autumn of 1919, he studied counterpoint and fugue under Sokolov.
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Nikolai Sokolov
2026–2026
Dmitri Shostakovich
2026–1975